Welcome to another installment of Wednesday reads. Today I am featuring another series and not just a single book. The series is The House of Night by P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast.
Mother and daughter team up to write a series on vampyres at a sort of vampyre finishing school. In this series, a teenager is "marked" as a vampyre and become a fledglings. They are then taken to a House of Night where they learn all about vampyres and their way of life as they wait to make the full Change to a full-fledged vampyre. But not all make it and some die.
This series centers on Zoey Redbird and her friends. Zoey is a special fledgling and has been given affinities for all five elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Spirit. With her friends by her side she discovers that some vampyres have been misusing their special powers given to them by their Goddess Nyx.
I really like this series a lot, even better than the Twilight series! :) The characters have depth and connection. It is a pretty clean book, but there are cuss words and a few sexual scenes that push the limits of what I like to read. But I still do like these books. Now, I feel I need to warn you that there is a lot of talk about their Goddess Nyx and they do spells and rituals. If you are not comfortable with that then I would recommend you not reading this series.
What I love about this series is it is currently at nine books!
These are the first 8 books.
Destined is the 9th book in the series and I thought it was done. I mean the way it ends you expect more but way later like in a few years, BUT I found something while looking up the pictures for the books.
Hidden, the 10th book in the series comes out in October! I'm so excited! :) I love series and how you can be with the same characters the whole time! :)
There are also two published novellas and one soon to be released. These are about three of the professors at The House of Night and give some background on them.
There is also a fledgling handbook that gives you information all the information a new fledglings would need to know about vampyre history, rituals, biology and on making the Change to a full-fledged vampyre.
I've heard good things about this series. I think I have the first one for my kindle. I'll have to put it in the on deck circle and read it next.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, you need too! :)
Deletei seen these all the time at barnes and noble and i always want to pick it up..just havent yet but i think i will now:)
ReplyDeleteYes, you need too! They are a quick read too!
DeleteI just want to say I hate/love you right now - LOL - (I meant the hate part in a nice way) I'm already on book 3!!!
ReplyDeleteAny other series that I should look into reading next?
Muwahahahaha! My plan is working! :)
DeleteIf you want something similar you could try the Blue Blood series by Melissa de la Cruz. Also about vampires.
P.C. Cast writes another series: Divine by Mistake, Divine by Choice, and Divine by Blood. This series as with her other books (not really counting the House of Night books) are a bit more risque.
Done with book 3... 6 more to go! I'll look into the other series also :)
DeleteI love all of the books in P.C Cast's Divine's series, they are such well written guilty pleasures!
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